Events1460 -
Wars of the Roses:
Battle of Wakefield1816 - The
Treaty of St. Louis is proclaimed.
1853 -
Gadsden Purchase: The
United States buys land from
Mexico to facilitate
railroad building in the Southwest.1853 - A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an
Iguanodon created by
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir
Richard Owen in south
London.
1862 -
USS Monitor sinks off
Cape Hatteras,
North Carolina.
1879 -
The Pirates of Penzance is first performed (
Paignton,
Devon,
England).
1880 - The
Transvaal becomes a republic and
Paul Kruger, its first president.
1896 -
José Rizal was
executed by
firing squad in
Manila.
1897 -
Natal annexes
Zululand.
1903 -
A fire at the Iroquois Theater in
Chicago, Illinois kills 600.
1905 - Former Governor
Frank Steunenberg is assassinated near his home in
Caldwell,
Idaho.
1906 - The
All India Muslim League is founded in
Dacca,
East Bengal,
British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of
Pakistan.
1919 -
Lincoln's Inn in
London admits its first female bar student.
1922 - The
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
1924 -
Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other
galaxies.
1927 - The
Ginza Line, the first
subway line in
Asia, opens in
Tokyo.
1936 - The
United Auto Workers union stages its first
sit-down strike.
1940 -
California opens its first
freeway, the
Arroyo Seco Parkway.
1943 -
Subhash Chandra Bose raises the flag of
Indian independence at
Port Blair.
1944 - King
George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving his throne vacant.
1947 - King
Michael of Romania forced to abdicate by the
Soviet-backed Communist government of Romania.
1953 -
Television Technology: The first ever
NTSC color television sets go on sale for about
USD at $1,175 each from
RCA.
1965 -
Ferdinand Marcos becomes
President of the
Philippines.
1972 -
Vietnam War: The
US halts heavy bombing of
North Vietnam.
1977 -
Ted Bundy escapes from his cell in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
1981 -
Wayne Gretzky scores his 50th goal in 39 games, still a
National Hockey League record.
1993 -
Israel and the
Vatican establish diplomatic relations.
1995 - The lowest ever
UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at
Altnaharra in the
Scottish Highlands. This equalled the record set at
Braemar,
Aberdeenshire on
February 11,
1895 and
January 10,
1982.
1996 - In the
Indian state of
Assam, a passenger train is bombed by
Bodo separatists, killing 26. 1996 - Proposed budget cuts by
Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across
Israel.
1997 - In the worst incident in
Algeria's insurgency, the
Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people are killed from four villages.
2000 -
Rizal Day Bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in
Metro Manila,
Philippines within a span of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.2003 -
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himself and his office from the
Plame affair.
2004 - A fire in the
República Cromagnon nightclub in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina kills 194.
2005 -
Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic, tying the record for the latest
tropical cyclone ever to form in the
North Atlantic basin.
2006 -
Madrid Barajas International Airport is
bombed.
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